Cape Cod Voices - Their Stories, Their History

Our story moves on. All the guests have arrived, and during dinner they find out who the murder victim is to be.

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Literature Discussion - The year is 1938.

Join the Author Interview as eight famous American Detective Fiction writers come together on New Year’s Eve as the guests of Felix duPont of Oyster Harbors who has invited them for a weekend house party. The setting is almost gothic. Old mansion, snow storm, nervous guests.

The invitation said there was to be a murder, a Murder At Midnight. The question was, ‘Who was to be murdered?’ Stay tuned as these famous detective writers of the Golden Age are challenged to write the greatest story of their careers.

Our Famous American Detective Fiction Writers come together on New Years Eve as the guests of Felix duPont of Oyster Harbors. Felix has brought them together to commit a murder. A Murder at Midnight. Stay tuned...

Join in an author interview in 1938 as eight famous Detective Writers gather at an isolated mansion in Oyster Harbors as guests for a house party to craft the most difficult story of their career. Discover the story motivation and insights of the author as we create a Murder at Midnight.

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William Shakespeare wrote many plays with murder in them. He killed off kings and destroyed countries in his plays. We discuss two such plays, more well known.

Hamlet and Macbeth... Stay tuned.

A club of well known detective writers in the UK. Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers were members of this secret club. They formed a club in 1920 to 1930. It was called the Detection Club during the GoldenAge of Detective Writing.

James never developed a hard-boiled detective but instead, wrote love stories. Brutal, frank, passionate love stories. "The Postman Always Rings Twice" Lana Turner played in that one, and Joan Crawford played "Mildred Pierce" are two of his more well known novels that have been made into films...

Raymond Chandler created Philip Marlow and wrote him into 7 novels. Chandler's best known novel, The Big Sleep has been adapted into three films, two plays, a TV series, and BBC4 Radio shows twice. Amazing! He also wrote screen plays.

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Agatha the Queen of Crime wrote 66 detective novels, numerous short stories and sold billions of books. Her characters have lived for 105 years and are still being read. Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence are still being re-created in TV series, radio shows and films.

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Ngaio Marsh created Roderick Alleyn, Detective as her protagonist. He was not related to royalty but a middle-class policeman. She wrote 13 novels with him. She was also a member of the Detection Club. Stay Tuned.....